experienced since that event. I was told by one 

 merchant, that the price, for many years of the war, 

 had generally heen between 24*. and 26*. per quar- 

 ter, if the "paper money had been valued according 

 to the proportion which it bore to silver money, at 

 the several periods of its depreciation. 



The Account obtained at Cracow (see Appendix, 

 No. 23) shows that for ten years and two half-years, 

 the average price of Wheat was 25*. ]<:/., though 

 between the first and last part of that period, the 

 difference is enormous ; the first part showing an 

 average of 33*. and the last of only 17*. ocl. If the 

 mean of those two parts be taken, it will show 25*. 

 which nearly corresponds with the information of the 

 merchant before referred to. 



If, in the absence of better data, it be assumed, 

 that the selling price of Wheat near Cracow has 

 been for a series of years at 25*. and that the 

 grower's profit has been ten per cent. ; and the cost 

 price thus taken, at 22*. Qd. the rate at which it 

 would reach this country may be thus estimated : 



*. d. 



Cost of Wheat at Cracow - - 22 6 



Conveyance to boats, loading, &c. - 6 

 Freight to Dantzic - .-76 



Loss by pilfering, and damage from wet 3 6 

 Expenses at Dantzic, as in the former 



Estimate - 2 



Profit or commission, as before - - 1 6 

 Freight, &c. to London - - 8 



45 6 



Some allowance should be made for risk beyond 

 insurance, as Corn is covered by the underwriters 

 only in the stranding of the ship, and in the loss 

 which may be to be paid when there is a general 



